Azure Virtual Desktop Reviews and details

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• Mini Desktop

  Another option that would be considered an alternative would be Azure Virtual Desktops - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-desktop/. I have practically no experience with this approach but I have seen it suggested more and more lately, just something to consider. Source: 10 months ago

• Any Hyper-V VDI success stories?

  Here are more details: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-desktop/. Source: 11 months ago

• Cybersecurity for a small businss - where to start

  This is highly specific to the all of the roles of the server and its data. Is it simply a hypervisor? You might be a good candidate for https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-desktop/. Azure/Office/MS365 is a great place to begin a security journey, as you can scale up and down in terms of your security spend based on where you're at. Source: 12 months ago

• Need to work remote for 5 days and WiFi in hotel does not allow VPN connections according to their website. I cannot change hotel, but how can I use my phone for internet on a Work computer? I am not allowed to load anything like PDANet+.

  - If this remote work 5 days is for companies business, then this should be solved for by your company's IT department. They could provision a "Cloud" desktop (e.g. Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop). Or provide you with a work issue mobile hotspot. Source: about 1 year ago

• Azure Virtual Desktop

  You can find all the documentation you need for your proposal here! Sales Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-desktop/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Dev env to develop .NET/Windows on M1 Mac?

  Rent Windows desktop on Azure Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-desktop/ Or build yourself one on most VPS providers. Source: over 1 year ago

• Edge of the world users

  Sounds like an easy solution that Azure can fix. Any possibility of using Windows Virtual Desktop for these end users? What about bringing applications closer to them to split the latency difference? Source: over 1 year ago

• Can Virtualization offer me rapid disaster recovery?

  Check this >> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• I created a guide on how to build custom Windows 11 "golden" images for Azure Virtual Desktop using Packer. The build is automated by using a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow to check daily for new Windows releases and create a new image as soon as it's published

  Over the past month I created a guide demonstrating how to build custom Windows 11 "golden" images for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) using Packer and automate it using GitHub Actions (GHA). Source: about 2 years ago

• virtual desktop with superfast internet?

  However if not there are lots of options - install a DE and VNC to access a Linux VPS remotely, install Windows or another desktop as a guest OS on a dedicated server, install a Windows image on an AWS EC2 instance, or use a VDI solution like this from Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/. Source: over 2 years ago

• So... That was a sad way to end a campaign

  If you just need to get by until you might consider a cloud hosted virtual desktop. Two that might work are Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and Shells. I have not tried either but you should be able to login to a full desktop environment using your phone. I have done a similar thing to login to my own personal desktop computer before. It's not ideal but it works. Source: over 2 years ago

• Can I daytrade on a chromebook or other laptop under $300?

  If you need to run specific software on windows get Azure Virtual Desktop and connect to it using RDP, chrome remote desktop is good. Source: over 2 years ago

• All cards have been compromised

  If I were you, I would try to find a secure system (boot into your system using a liveusb linux like this or use a microsoft provided virtual machine like this and login + change your logins through that. But first log out of everything everywhere (phone, tablet, etc), then get into a secure system, change all the logins, and then don't log in anywhere else for a few days. If it's all good, then login only rarely... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Moving to Azure, questions with multiple remote desktops.

  This will be your go-to and you could start here to answer the question, "What is WvD". Source: almost 3 years ago

• Trying to figure out "hotel" desks with desktops.. Any application recommendations? details inside -

  Windows Virtual Desktop has higher tiers for GPU use. Source: about 3 years ago

• Remote access, BYOD or provide company laptops.

  Yes. Desktops are truly dead in this modern world. (Exception of Engineering, Graphic Design/Video Production and other high processing requirements) If your employees are not road warriors, Microsoft Virtual Desktop may work if you already have an M365 Business Premium or higher subscription. (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/#features). I am not endorsing or selling this service, just... Source: about 3 years ago